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BUDGET BLOWOUT The tab for treating and preventing HIV/AIDS in the world's poorest countries could run as high as $9.2 billion a year, according to the latest U.N. figures. Current expenditure? About $1.8 billion. At least $4 billion is needed in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 20% of the adult population is infected...
...Institute’s findings are all the more significant because subtype C is considered one of the most infectious strains of HIV—it is responsible for over 50 percent of all cases of HIV worldwide, and is the most prevalent strain in Sub-Saharan Africa...
...work in the dark, the world has started to wake up." Indeed, world leaders may be more aware than ever of the fact that more than 30 million people worldwide are currently living with AIDS, and that most of them - particularly among the 25 million who live in sub-Saharan Africa - are doomed to die from the disease. But that doesn't necessarily make them more inclined to take the steps necessary to stop the horror...
...counter the spread of HIV through safe-sex education, the provision of condoms and relatively cheap drugs proven to stop mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Treating those already infected would require a further $4.5 billion a year. Plainly, the priority in the impoverished nations of sub-Saharan Africa is to stop the spread of a disease that threatens to drag the continent into anarchy. And where resources are already scarce, the unspoken choice may be to simply let the majority of those currently infected with HIV die. But that essentially implies a conscious choice by the world...
...statement cites a United Nations (U.N.) estimate that 24.5 million people in sub-Saharan African were infected with HIV at the end of 1999. The HIV virus is deadly if left untreated and the statement argues that the social fabric and economic situation of highly affected nations will further deteriorate if the virus is left untreated. The biggest challenge, the document states, is obtaining and distributing drugs to treat the virus in the hardest-hit areas...